Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-02-17

TIE London Standard doubts TT g wisdom
of the neutrality-of-Egypt agreement re-
norted to have been made between En-.
gland and Turkey.
NEWS from Rome says the Pope, in ref
erence to the prominence given to Catho.
lies in the German elections. main tains
that he stands by sentiments contained in
former letters.
CAPTAIN F, s. Lilly, hero of three
wars-Florida, Mexican and the rebellion
was instantly killed on the 10th. at Day.
tom o., by q street car running over him.
He had just received his Mexican pension
papers.
STATE SUPERINTENDENT AKERS and q
committee of the Iowa Educational Asso.
citation met at Cedar Rapids, Ia, on the
10th, and prepared plans for arranging
the Iowa exhibit at TIE meeting of the Ma
tional Teachers Association at Chicago in
July.
THERE was grea at excitement in Mount
IfoIlz,. n. j., on tee 10th, over the finding
CT Maggie Anderson, aged seventeen
years, in the woods on the outskirts OF
frat place with Il bullet hole in her head.
sac was unconscious and dying. A pisto!
found near this body led to the arrest OF
Barclay PECK, of Mount Holly.
, 1T was reported on the morning of the
18th that The midnight sleeper on the
Cleveland d Pittsburgh railroad ran
through q bridge about SIX miles from
Cleveland, which had been weakened by
high water. 1t was impossible to verify
the runner, or get details.
FIRE broke out in San Francisco on the
morning of the 10th, in a b1ilding occupied
| as Chinese laundry an5 japanese fancy
| store, 1t communicated TO the residence
adjoining on the west. The wash-house
n nav, ri
Sireas5n. John WatkiTE5on fireman, was
klllea, and three others were fatally in
ureG- 1t is thought that several China
| nrn were among the ruins.
| NEW YORK engineers and brewers re
insed to obey the order of District AS
senbly 40, and kept on with their work
! DISASTROUS floods We're reported in
lS"iichigan and Indiana rivers on the I1tk.
| Four hundred houses were burned al
Rangoon, Burma.a, on the 11th-
! TRAINS were delayed at Keokuk, Ts., or
! the 18th, from twelve to sixteen hours by
| a storm.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has vetoed the
| Dependent Parents Pension bill
Louis BAcHE, a great-grandson of Bon
| iamin Franklin, died at Louisville, KY, OF
the 18th.
| JOHN BRIGHT has written another letter
on the Irish question in which he criticise:
| Gladstone sharply.
THOMAS #. MCGowAN fell out of a box il
| a Minneapolis theater, On the 18th, anC
broke his neck.
| 4 sMAsHUP occurred on the Cleveland &
! Pittsburgh road near Cleveland, on the
18th, but no lives were lost.
THE German press speaks more assur
! ingiy of the prospects of continued peace
| between France and Germany.
| AT RrV6ueS Ont on the 18th q reign n
terror existed on the temperance issue
| advocates of enforcement of the temper
ance law being roughly handled by
| friends of the liquor interests.
W. L. CoTS, real estate and insurance
agent of Rock Islant, Ill, was found
! guilty on the 18th of subornation of per
| jury, and was sentenced to two and {
half years in the penitentiary.
BITTER warfare is being waged al
Leavenw orth, Kas., between saloon mel
| and the temperance people.
SECRETARY MANNING has sent to the
House letter from the supervising ar chi
tect of the treasury recommending an in.
crease OF $lS,S14 in the appropriation for
| the Government building at Jefferson
| City, Mo.
| DIR. S. PRICE, of Lexington, KY, has
sold his bay five-year-old stallion Bos tor
Wilkes, by George Wilkes, dam by Ameri
can Clay, to Closer & Lyon, Laporte
| Ind. Price paid, g, $50.
| OFFICERS from Greenville, O., arrested
Mrs. Sarah Rhoades, at Keyser, W. Va.
| on the 18th, and took her back to Green
VILE, where she will be tried for the muir
der of Alfred Blizzard at that place weel
or so ago.
! THOMAS B. MALONE, of Stella, Neb.,
walked into a pawn-shop at Grand Island
Neb., on the night Of the 10th, asked tt
| look at a revolver, and placed it to his
head and fired, inficting fatal wound
! Before dying he said he did it because he
| was tired of living.
| TIE Russian Mediterranean feet has
been sent to Japan, where the Car in
| tends to assemble a squadron of consid-
| cradle proportions.
A BARN in Detroit, Mich, was burned, or
the evening of the 18th, and in it persisted
three valuable trotters. They were: Flora
| B., record 2:241S, value $4,000; Joe Hook
err, record 2:1915, value S1.700, and q
! three-year-old tilley, valued at 500, and
We're owned by Tom Wood and James
| HOLMAN. The horses were insured for
| s., 800.